Ron Peters's Reviews > Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology

This is another title from the list of David Bowie’s 100 Favorite Books (https://tinyurl.com/2yc58zhm), and as with the others, it’s very Bowie-ish.

This originally appeared in shorter form as a New Yorker article that Weschler expanded into a small book with copious footnotes. It tells the story of David Wilson’s obscure Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, California, which has nothing to do with the Jurassic and only occasionally anything to do with technology.

Some of the displays are real enough but contain odd, hard-to-track-down errors of omission or commission in the posted descriptions. Other displays are almost entirely bogus. Wilson meets people with a serious, calm, academic demeanor and tells you stories about the museum and its artifacts that are entirely, or somewhat, or not at all true.

The idea behind all this—your entire life as a work of performance art—is 100% David Bowie’s credo, so it’s not surprising that he liked this book and David Wilson.